Friday, December 20, 2013

Reddit's science forum bans climate change deniers

After some time interacting with the regular denier posters, it became
clear that they could not or would not improve their demeanor. These
problematic users were not the common “internet trolls” looking to have a
little fun upsetting people. Such users are practically the norm on
reddit. These people were true believers, blind to the fact that their
arguments were hopelessly flawed, the result of cherry-picked data and
conspiratorial thinking. They had no idea that the smart-sounding
talking points from their preferred climate blog were, even to a casual
climate science observer, plainly wrong. They were completely enamored
by the emotionally charged and rhetoric-based arguments of pundits on
talk radio and Fox News.